Gavin Ferguson > Ogier > St Peter Port, Guernsey > Lawyer Profile
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Gavin Ferguson
Work Department
Private Wealth
Position
Partner
Career
Gavin is a partner in Ogier’s Private Wealth team, and provides contentious and non-contentious fiduciary services to high net worth individuals, corporate clients and charities. He advises on all aspects of trust and foundation law, including in respect of their creation, reorganisation and administration.
He also advises on regulatory matters, general private client matters (including probate) and has an interest in Sharia compliant fiduciary structures.
Gavin is a qualified Guernsey Advocate, BVI solicitor and English solicitor, and holds a personal fiduciary license which permits him to act as a director, protector, enforcer, guardian and council member.
He was praised for his “very high degree of expertise” in trust and private wealth work, and described as “one of the island’s top trust lawyers” in client feedback cited in the Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2019. Client feedback quotes by Legal 500 described him as “astute, affable, technically knowledgeable and efficient”.
Gavin is a STEP member and a contributing author to the STEP Certificate in Foundations. He is a council member of the International Wealth Advisers Forum 2.0, a Chartered Member of the CISI, and a member of the International Tax Planning Association.”
Gavin is a founding member and the current Guardian of local male cancer charity, MUG.
Memberships
STEP
International Wealth Advisers Forum
CSI Chartered Member
International Tax Planning Association
Education
Admitted in:
Notary Public (Guernsey) – 2017
BVI – 2014
Guernsey – 2007
England & Wales – 2003
Lawyer Rankings
Guernsey > Private client, trusts and tax
(Hall of Fame)Ogier‘s team advises clients including HNWIs, their family offices and fiduciary service providers on a range of trust matters, including the establishment and restructuring of Guernsey structures, succession and estate planning, family governance, and tax efficiency. Spearheading the practice is Matthew Guthrie, noted for setting up and restructuring complex cross-border structures, in addition to representing trustees involved in disputes. Catherine Moore assists HNWIs and fiduciaries with the structuring of private wealth and regulatory issues, while managing associate Chris Hards supports clients with matters of trusts and foundation law, with further expertise in pensions issues. Gavin Ferguson 
completes the roster of recommended names.
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